A friend of mine recommended Oceansize to me. I’m glad I checked them out, because I was completely blown away by the originality and intricacy of Everyone Into Position and especially Frames. When I got the news that the band is going to release a new album I was hellbound on reviewing it. [...]

The thing I love about Frames, Oceansize’s third album, is that I don’t love everything on Frames. Does that make sense? Oceansize has actually done a track that I think is okay, at best. I’ll tell you which one in a minute. But for some reason, the fact that there [...]

Writing a review for an album that came out six years ago is a lot harder than I thought it was going to be. Instead of listening to each track and jotting down some notes about odd time signatures, explosive guitars, tender vocals and layers upon layers upon layers, I [...]

Sandwiched between the first and second albums, this five-track EP was released in October 2004 and incorporates elements of the first Oceansize album, Effloresce, whilst pointing the way to the second album which came out a year later. One out of ‘nONE’, the first track, is a pounding statement of [...]

This is how I got into Oceansize: I was flicking TV channels when I stopped on VH-1 or something similar. A video was playing. The drums were choppy and the guitars crunchy. I watched until the end but that was no more than 45 seconds. The title and artist came [...]

From Napalm Records For the first time in their illustrious, still-rising career, the Faroese pagan metal mongers TÝR have topped the CMJ Loud Rock radio charts with their brand-new album, “The Lay of Thrym”. The album had charted at #31 last week, and now, on the week of its US [...]

Basick Records is a small English label, specialised in cutting edge progressive and technical metal. I was pretty pleased with the debut ep by Australian outfit Circles, so when I jumped on the chance at doing a review one of their recent signings, namely Visions. These youngsters are about to [...]

From LifeForce Records NIGHTRAGE have revealed the following statement about their upcoming 5th album entitled “Insidious” which will be released on September 26th in Europe and a day later in North America. The new NIGHTRAGE album is ready! We are extremely happy with the results and we look forward to [...]

Relapse Records is currently busy with re-releasing the Death backcatalogue. They did a very nice job with The Sound Of Perseverance and Control Denied’s The Fragile Art Of Existence. Next on the list is the classic Human album, originally released in 1991. Let’s see what is has to offer. On [...]

EAST OF THE WALL Complete New Album; Tour Plans Begin To Take Shape Technical metal subversives EAST OF THE WALL have completed the recording process for their upcoming third full-length, The Apologist, the highly anticipated opus set for release this October on Translation Loss Records for the CD and digital [...]

Several members from experimental/progressive outfits A Fucking Elephant and El Drugstore founded a new label, called Nefarious Records. In order to celebrate this joyful event both bands decided to record an untitled split EP. Let’s see what these guys have to offer. The first five songs are provided by A [...]

IN FLAMES – NUMBER 1 IN THE OFFICIAL GERMAN MEDIA CONTROL CHARTS (SOURCE: CHARTS.DE) PLUS ADDITIONAL CHARTS ALL OVER EUROPE IN FLAMES are number 1 in the official German Media Control Charts with their new album “Sounds Of A Playground Fading”! (source: charts.de) Antje Lange, Label manager of [...]